Display carton



I July 21, 1931. J vlSCOUNT 1,815,224

DISPLAY CARTON Filed June 20, 1929 INVENTOR WK QC .VMCW WW, 4%.

% ATTORNEY Patented July 21, 1931 PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH L. VISCOUNT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SNYDER & BLACK, INCOR- PORATED, 015 NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK DISPLAY Application filed June 20,

This invention relates to display cartons and has for its object to furnish a package or merchandise display device, and a storage for similar articles from which the display may be replenished as the articles are removed for sale.

Primarily the device consists of three boxes hinged together in such manner that two act as easel supports the other being erectable above the easel member. Preferably a spacing device is employed for the easel members and a latch for the erectable member. One of the easel members and the third or erectable member are adapted to hold goods in prearranged position within openings in the facing portions whether these are folded together for transportation or storage and they are so constructed and hinged that when all three of the boxes are opened up into display position these faces present a substantially flat surface exhibiting the goods in the prearranged display positions.

In the accompanying drawings one practicable form of my invention is shown by way of illustration, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective showing the front and side of the device when opened and in display position. Fig. 2 is a perspective showing the rear and side of the Fig. 1 device, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the three boxes folded together, but partly sepa rated.

F or the purposes of description the lower display box 1 will some times be grouped with the upper display box 2 and at other times with its companion easel forming box 3, one of these boxes being hinged to it at its upper front edge at 4 and the other to it at its upper rear edge 5.

The boxes 1 and 2 are formed with fronts 6 and 7 which face outwardly and are substantially flat when the boxes are opened up for display and the top end 8 of the box 1 is in engagement with the bottom end 9 of the box 2. This display position is maintained by opening out the other easel box 3 to the desired distance preferably to the full extent of the spacing device 10, and by booking the latch 11 carried by the back of the box 2 into a slot formed at the upper rear edge of the CARTON 1929. Serial No. 372,256.

box 3. The fronts 6 and 7 are preferably cut out as at 12 for the reception of packages or articles of merchandise. The box 3 may be made available for a shielded storage of articles to replenish the display by furnishing its rear with a cut out flap door 13.

I claim:

1. The combination of three boxes so hinged together that two of them when positioned end to end present a substantially flat display front and another cooperates with these in forming an easel support.

2. The combination with a box having a box hinged to its upper rear edge the two constituting an easel support, of another box hinged to the first mentioned box at its upper front edge, the two constituting a display.

The combination with a box, there being a box hinged at its upper front edge to the upper rear edge of the first box, the two constituting an easel support, of another box hinged at its lower front edge to the upper front edge of the first box, the two constituting a display.

l. The combination with two boxes each having a display front formed to receive articles of merchandise, these boxes being so hinged together that when placed end to end their fronts are substantially flat and when placed alongside each other their fronts are juxtaposed, of a third box hinged to the rear of one of the display boxes so that when opened up it acts as an easel support.

In witness whereof, I hereby afiix my signature this 17th day of June, 1929.

JOSEPH L. VISCOUNT. 

